All our best Christmas decorations are home made. They’re special because we put our time and creative energy into making them, often with scraps left over from other projects.
Here are a few of my favourites –
Eight maids-a-milking from The Twelve Days of Christmas carol.
The maids are peg dollies, their skirts made from paper and doilies. The cow has his own little bell, rescued from a Lindt reindeer that was consumed a previous year 🙂
Rudolph.
He has a nodding head, and his body is made of a plastic milk bottle. Poor thing, his legs are a bit wobbly with old age, but Rudolph’s been coming out to play every Christmas for the last 7 years, which is pretty good for something we cobbled together with papier mache and a milk bottle!
The Gingerbread House.
Shiny cardboard overload on this one! We’ve got glitter, jewels, metallic card, cotton wool, and cardboard tubes all dressed up like candy canes. So over the top – I love it!
We don’t make all our decorations, but those are the ones we ooh and aahh over every year, the ones that come with memories
We also let the girls choose a new tree decoration each year, one for each of them, and I put a little label on each one saying which year we bought it. It’s part of our lead up to Christmas ritual.
I think a lot of people do this now, and there was a lot of thought and deliberation going into the choices being made at the Garden Centre last night. The girls took nearly an hour making their decision!
What about you? Do you have any special decorations, or rituals for this time of year?
